Letters to the Editor
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Follow up to Scientician
"He might, but it would still be an improvement over the status quo where Congress has explicitly authorized him to ignore Habeas."
In addition, it puts more visibility on what he's doing and how he represents/advocates a fundamental abandonment of the core principles of free democratic society.
No kings,
Robert
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e_five:
But why is the onus placed on Democrats ALONE in this article? From what I've been reading lately, and what I've seen of the GOP talking points bubbling through the mouths of so-called journalists, suddenly the worst abuses of the Bush administration are the fault of the Democrats.
Who said the onus is on Democrats "ALONE"? I said the opposite:
And while it was the Bush White House which initiated this practice and it was Republicans in Congress who voted for it, Democrats -- who calculated that meaningfully opposing this bill would be too politically costly and would jeopardize their election victory -- bear significant culpability for its enactment.
Having said that, though, the Democrats control the agenda of the House. When they were in the minority, they repeatedly claimed they could not control the agenda because they were in the minority. Now they are in the majority. Who else should be responsible for introducing and enacting this bill?
Moreoever, the Republican Party has, more or less in unison, made clear they support this bill. Democrats claim to oppose it. So why shouldn't the onus be on them to follow through on those claims?
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Battered Wife
Totally ignoring, of course, the cult-like bloc voting of the GOP, their authoring the bill, their obsfucation of the details within the bills, signing statements, etc. This is like saying it's the battered alcoholic's wife's fault for not hiding the liquor well enough.
I look at rather than "ignoring" the GOP, but as not wasting our breath on them. They are insane, cultish right wing authoritarians who lie, steal and never learn from their mistakes. They are pathological double-highs and they're simply so despicable that we should expect literally nothing from them in way of aid in doing this.
This won't happen at all unless Democrats do it. A few token Republicans will vote for it, but nowhere near enough to make it veto proof.
And seeing as the Democrats had the filibuster option in the Senate, giving them the out of being "battered wives" isn't cutting it. They probably do emulate some of the psychology present in battered wives in that they have internalized many of the worst lies about Democrats, liberals, and the public's supposed rejection of liberalism as spread by the Broders of the world. Nonetheless, they did have the power to stop this.
However, we need them to be stronger and better than that, and now that we've put them in the majority, it's no longer even passably acceptable to allow them to hide behind their fears of what the big bad GOP machine will say about them for restoring Habeas. It's a new era, and the 2002 rules have been repudiated and no democrat should listen to anyone stuck in 2002 (or 1998 for that matter) anymore.
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I agree. We need more and more good Graham's crackers. It's essential.
You took my thought out from the legal reason realm, into a browse via the December 2006, National Geographic article.
The article is titled, 'The Heroes. The Healing.' It's a long well written, painful to read, in Two Parts. It's actually about military medicine, but it overlaps because it's an embrace of war THE FRONT LINES TO THE HOMEFRONT stateside. N.G.'s staff writer, Neil Shea and photographs by, James Nachtwey, will rivet a reader's attention, unless your comatose, THAT is.
It's a reality story about triage-wounds that follow warmonger's lies. The question is asked, 'Who gets dead, or who do we revive?'
The injured wheeze on respirators. Sniper bullets crack skulls and bones of a victim's hip. Medevac choppers hurl dust and dirt into bloody wounds. Scrub-manic 'docs' who are green at experiences such as slaughter conditions, and are fresh out of Fort Hood Texas, break out in tears. Monitors beep a 'code blue' and every medic runs to assist a nurse who screams, "Hey, I think I'm getting a pulse!"
A person can photo for 'us' the image of blood coming out of ears. One can gasp as they see a horror gasp from a open-jaw on the care-givers face.
The mood must shift in this country before there is no coming back. None of us in the world needs to experience this first hand participating eyewitness to blood-letting. A politico's will stare with a blank face when the truth is face-to-face looking at them. Look at them real firm and eagle-eye like. Thanks.
Honest. A flock of wild turkey are clucking in my back yard.
Okay, no compliments and back on topic, but, imho, the truth can bring people back from the dead and join us at the same feasting table. I am just saying Thanksgiving to you a bit early.
Imagine you can only know one thing in the world. And that one thing is that you don't know anything. Start there and then come back for dinner HERE later. If one has never seen war carnage, it's true, imho, that people who are injured don't recognize that they are injured, or they have lost pieces of themselves a long lives journey. Thanks for those exception when ya can say without bile or denial, "Yes."
It's been to [our times] me watching a neocon politician climber climb up the proverbial ladder and watch them fall on their head. Blood seeps via every hollow eye, ears etc., and they are so 'in denial' when you say, "Stop you are brain dead," yet they still try to climb the ladder.
A read of Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay, 'Politics' could be a must read for every person who thinks they wish to be a good politician. My personal experience, when I wanted a 'trial' with an honest impartial jury, IT did NOT happen! I could NOT find a honest magistrate, attorney, or even a honest plumber when my Ameri/Asian friends Laundry mat was proved (utility theft of gas and water) fraud. I am a "outhouse" layperson and had to defend my self before a non-jury, and corrupt District Attorney. I best hush and Judge not...and watch wild turkey's or I'll be a dead corpse.
NO drink Wild Turkey Whiskey. Get the GOP down on earth and stop crawling up the lunch table chairs with their primordial tale!